176 * Lovgicornia Malay ana. 



the sides and finely punctured; sciitellum semicircular; elytra 

 compressed, irregidarly punctured, reddish-brovvn, the middle 

 and apex clouded with grey, the crest rather marked, the elevated 

 lines with small nodules clothed with short tufts of dark hairs, 

 and often with a long seta in the middle, the apex rounded ; body 

 beneath closely pubescent, greyish, the abdomen reddish ; legs 

 reddish-brown, the tibiae at the apex and penultimate joint of the 

 tarsi dark brown ; antennae dark brown, ringed with ashy fronn 

 the fourth joint. 



Length 5| lines. 



Praonetha pituttosa. 



P. dense et breviter pubescens, fusca, ochraceo-varia ; protho- 

 race subtransverso ; elytris post medium linea angulata 

 grisea, apicibus oblique truncatis. 



Hab. — Kaioa. 



Dark brown, with a short dense pubescence varied with ochre- 

 ous ; head with an ochreous pile dotted with brown; prothorax 

 subtransverse, sparingly punctured, ochreous, varied and dotted 

 with brown; scutellum transverse; elytra slightly compressed, 

 with two narrow sharply raised lines, the inner scarcely inter- 

 rupted behind the basal crest, the ochreous line very obscure, 

 but behind the middle rather more decided in the shape of a 

 narrow zig-zag line, also faint indications of a similar line at the 

 side anteriorly, the apex of each elytron obliquely truncate; body 

 beneath and legs with a sparse ochreous pile, the centre of the 

 last abdominal segment dark brown ; antennae with the third to 

 the tentli joints, inclusive, strongly spined. 



Length 5^ lines. 



Praonetha deducta. 



P. picea, breviter griseo-pubescens ; prothorace subquadrato, 

 concolori ; elytris dimidio basali subcancscentibus, postice 

 brunneis, griseo-variis, apice conjunctim subrotundatis. 



Hab. — Tondano. 



Pitchy brown, with a short greyish pubescence ; head with 

 sparse ochreous pile ; prothorax nearly quadrate, rounded at the 

 sides, finely punctured, with a delicate uniform pubescence ; scu- 

 tellum transverse ; elytra compressed, with two raised lines, the 

 inner strongly marked but completely interrupted behind the 

 crest, the basal half obscurely ashy, the pale brown followed by a 

 little greyish, the apex nearly rounded ; body beneath with a 

 greyish pile on the breast, but silky and pale yellow on the abdo- 

 men ; legs with a greyish pubescence ; antennae as in the last. 



Length 5| lines. 



